The inside story of RAF Germany Lightning operations

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Hugh Trevor examines the aircraft and operations of RAF Germany’s Lightning-equipped interceptor wing

Between 1965 and 1977, a time when the ‘Cold War’ could easily have turned hot, two squadrons of Royal Air Force English Electric Lightnings served in the front line of NATO defences in West Germany, primed for a rapid response to any incursion by Warsaw Pact forces.

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